Monthly Archives: October 2024
magical lights
I will always fall in love with a nighttime street that’s got lights hanging over it. Always. Every time.
I mean, I don’t fall in love with it enough to photograph it the “right” with a tripod and focused and stuff. But anyway, my brain likes this more ephemeral look so my brain and I are going to make you look at this version. That’s the way we roll.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
privacy curtain
You know how sometimes you pull into a little town and it seems friendly and you think about stopping for lunch or a coffee so you can have little bit of time chatting with the locals? And then later you check VBRO because it seems like maybe you’d like to go back for a long weekend and you wonder what your options are?
This town is…not that sort of place.
Puerto de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 10.6.2024
life/guard
I am so used to the west Texas wind blowing almost all the time that when I go somewhere that’s not windy, I am sort of it awe of that being an actual thing.
I was in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, the other night and there wasn’t even the tiniest bit of a breeze. You could tell from the air that fall was nearby and it was pleasant to be outside. I took advantage of all those conditions plus some dramatic reflections at a local lake and spent an hour or so making photographs. That v-shaped tree on the far side of the lake is what initially caught my attention; it’s in almost all of the photos I made that night. That seemed fair, since it was the reason I stopped in the first place.
Park Lake
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
pivots around water
A lot of farms around here are irrigated by center-pivot systems and their spindly frames and slow-motion circles are familiar sights. But for some reason, getting to see one in operation right next to the road is a rare thing; when my photographer friends and I saw this one, of course we stopped (after making the traditional u-turn) to get a closer look.
And photographs. We also got photographs.
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024
One Day | One Image 